The Impact Of The Oil Prices On Public And Private Health Expenditures: Empirical Analysis On Mena Countries

Journal Title: AURUM Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 2

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the impact of the oil prices on health expenditures, while distinguishing public from private healthcare services. To analyze the impact of oil prices, dynamic panel data analysis and Granger causality tests in time and frequency domain analysis are carried out respectively for selected ten countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the period of 1995 – 2014. The main findings that modeled with log difference of the used variables are as follows: oil prices have no impact on the public and private health expenditures in the dynamic models. The exchange rate has positive impact on public health expenditures, while the inflation rate has negative and the GDP has positive impact on private health expenditures.

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İrem DOĞAN

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İrem DOĞAN (2017). The Impact Of The Oil Prices On Public And Private Health Expenditures: Empirical Analysis On Mena Countries. AURUM Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2(2), 53-68. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-299943